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Yea someone else sad this. I think my area is trialling it for certain people from the age of two. Everyone gets it from age 3 but then some people get it from age two. Supposedly disadvantaged. Not that I see my son as at all disadvantage. The criteria we fit is earning working tax credit and getting less than 16,000 a year.

But like I said he isn't disadvantaged. I do all sorts with him. I love playing with him. He gets all my time and attention. My house is always a mess and he may not have the most expensive pushchair in the world and even that was second hand. But he has probably more toys than the nursery. Lol.

I do think it'll be brilliant for him though. I know he'll love it. I'll miss him but it'll give me time to spend with the little one I just found out I'm brewing. Might be worth seeing if 2 year funding exists in your area though just in case you are entitled to it.

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Mummy to the most beautiful baby boy in the world... ELLIOT JAMES 07.10.11 and wife to the lovely Aaron.

You're so lucky getting the funding, i don't know why I bother working tbh, I do 2 days a week, and would do more, but at 49 a day for nursery I just can't afford it, if I worked 3 days I would go over the tax threshold and with the extra days nursery and petrol I would end up coming home with less than working for just the 2 days

The whole system sucks, there is no incentive to go to work whatsoever, even when he gets to 3 it's not free as I thought, I have just found out that the funding starts the first school termafter he turns three which will count as April and then it is only free for so many hours and even then only during term time. So during term time i will have to still pay abuot 25 a week and during the holidays 90 a week again, I'm getting really hacked off with it

Yea i do agree the system sucks. My husband works at least 40 hours a week but most the time loads more.

Id love to have a job but realistically we just cant afford too. If i worked elliot would loose his nursery place which isnt fair on him abd id have to try funding child care. We dont get loads of benefits. Im not on job seekers or anything. Being pregnant with him was hard as i got no maternity allowance for him at all.

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Mummy to the most beautiful baby boy in the world... ELLIOT JAMES 07.10.11 and wife to the lovely Aaron.

Pkk73 - don't they start their free nursery the term after they turn 3, so won't that be January when they start? That's when I have it in my head. My son loves nursery, he is in one day a week, I hope your son enjoys it Kirsty x

My LO (little one) was late so is a November baby. My friends baby was born exactly 1 year and 1 day earlier than him and her "free" nursery place doesn't start until April. It's maybe different in different areas? Like some schools have two intakes a year and some only 1.

He loved it. Cried when we picked him up. He saw us walk past the window and decided he needed us then. But he headed to one end of the room but we went to the other. Theres two gates lol. Bless him. He was shattered when he got home.

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Mummy to the most beautiful baby boy in the world... ELLIOT JAMES 07.10.11 and wife to the lovely Aaron.

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